Meeting Face to Face, Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou take a Big Leap of Faith
Towards Peace
The historic summit meeting between
President Xi Jinping (習近平) and President Ma
Ying-jeou in Singapore last Saturday was the very first time the leaders of the
two sides of the Taiwan Strait have met face to face since the meeting between
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong (毛澤東) in Chongqing (重慶) in 1945. This is indeed a milestone – the culmination of the progress in
the development of “formal” relations between the two sides since the similarly
historic “ice-breaking journey” undertaken by Dr Lien Chan, then chairman of
the Kuomintang, in 2005, to meet then president Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) in his capacity
as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. That ushered in a period
of party-to-party relations at the highest levels.
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